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...trying to be. He made a few blunders in praising the Kuomintang Nationalist Party's Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in front of people who hated her guts. He was promptly admonished by an outraged older gentleman for not doing his homework. Brownback was completely taken aback by the scolding and apologized immediately. That seemed a fair warning to speak with caution and sensitivity in mind...
...maps, the beautiful, bustling island 100 miles off the coast of China is clearly labeled: Taiwan. The swarms of tourists and businessmen who arrive at the cavernous Chiang Kai-shek International Airport know they have landed in Taiwan. Even hostile communist officials in Beijing sometimes refer to their old foes, the Nationalists, as "the authorities on Taiwan." But if the government on the island should ever begin calling itself the Republic of Taiwan, signaling that it is declaring its full independence from the mainland, the most likely reply from the People's Republic of China across the straits would...
Washington has been hip deep in China's civil war for 50 years, since General George C. Marshall tried unsuccessfully to mediate between the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek, and the communists led by Mao Zedong. Even now, under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the U.S. sells "arms of a defensive character" to Taiwan and warns Beijing that Washington expects "that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means." Any use of force would be "of grave concern...
...also increasingly a Taiwanese government. The tight control by the mainlanders who came over with Chiang in 1949 has vanished, replaced by a feisty, wide-open democracy. Polls indicate that 83% of the population identify themselves either as Taiwanese and Chinese or as Taiwanese. Only 16.3% say they are simply Chinese. As for the future, 86% of Taiwan's people favor holding on to the status quo and putting off unification. The status quo, as they see it, includes efforts to conduct foreign relations and join international organizations, which stoke China's fury...
After the communist victory over Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Mao's position was immeasurably strengthened. Despite all that the Chinese people had endured, it seems not to have been too hard for Mao to persuade them of the visionary force and practical need for the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. In Mao's mind, the intensive marshaling of China's energies would draw manual and mental labor together into a final harmonious synthesis and throw a bridge across the chasm of China's poverty to the promised...